Marketing Insights Intern
At a glance
Junior General Marketing role at Oxford University Press. Western Cape.
Pay not stated General Marketing salary
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What you'll do
- Build reports after campaigns to show how marketing efforts performed
- Refresh dashboards and reporting, and help compare results against benchmarks
- Clean customer data and move it between platforms to support customer insight work
- Research competitors and audience behaviour, and track social media and website activity
- Help prepare marketing materials and carry out campaign work
What you bring
- A BCom, BTech or BSocSci qualification; information systems or marketing is preferred
- You can use Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and have worked with data visualisation tools
- You are a South African citizen with reliable transport
- Clear communication, sound time management and the ability to work well with a team
Who this fits
This is a fixed-term internship based at the Goodwood office in Cape Town. It suits someone seeking hands-on experience in marketing analysis and reporting, working under the marketing intelligence specialist.
From the employer
Education
Learning changes lives – and we’re here to drive that change. We support people wherever and however they want to learn, so they can achieve their learning goals and uncover new possibilities.
Today, we reach more learners than ever, in more ways than ever. And we’re just getting started.
Marketing Insights Intern (Fixed term role – 12 months)
About the Role
The Marketing Insights Intern will collect, analyze, and interpret data to help drive informed business and marketing decisions. This role offers valuable hands-on experience in market research, campaign performance analysis, customer insights, and reporting. The intern will work closely with marketing to identify trends and measure the effectiveness of marketing initiatives.
The marketing insights intern will report to the marketing intelligence specialist. This post is based in Cape Town, at the Goodwood office.
In this role, you will:
- Data analysis and performance measurement through generation of post campaign reports.
- Help update and maintain dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI, Excel)
- Support benchmarking and marketing performance analysis.
- Supporting the implementation of the data strategy to gain customer insight through data clean-up and transferring data between platforms
- Assist with documenting reporting processes and dashboard Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Support market research efforts, including competitor analysis and audience behaviour studies
- Experiencing being a team player in a fast-paced, future-focused, high performing Marketing department
- Social media and website monitoring and reporting (including competitor activities and wider trends in the education sector)
- Assist in preparing marketing materials and supporting campaign execution
About You:
Essential Criteria:
- BCOM (information systems or marketing preferred) / BTECH / BSocSci
- Computer literate – Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Experience working with data visualisation tools.
- Data analysis (preferred)
- Exposure to Power BI or Power Query(preferred)
- Sound communication and presentation skills
- Effective time management
- Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure
- Ability to work in a team
- South African citizen
- Access to reliable transport
Closing date: 11 November 2026
Oxford University Press, an equal opportunity employer, seeks a talented individual to fill this post based at Goodwood, Cape Town. Oxford University Press will consider all applications in terms of its Employment Equity Plan, which acknowledges the need for transformation.